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Author: Preet Anand

Preet Anand is the CEO and Founder of BlueLight, an everyday safety service that also provides enhanced emergency calling. Previously, he worked on solar homes for the U.S. Department of Energy and was the youngest lead product manager in Zynga's history. He has a degree in Engineering Physics from Santa Clara University.

911 wasn’t an original idea – like our democracy, it drew inspiration from other countries that had already implemented a single emergency number in the 20th century (Britain’s 999 in 1937 and New Zealand’s 111 in 1958).